Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...according to a newsletter from the International Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Taiwan (ICDHRT), an organization with offices in Seattle, Wash., and Japan which attempts to publicize the plight of political dissidents in Taiwan. With the increase in circulation, however, came an increase in attacks, both verbal and physical, against the publication from enraged private citizens. Opposition members suspect that Taiwan's secret police agencies, the Taiwan Garrison Command and the Investigation Bureau, sanctioned the abuses...
...following day, Waldheim and his staff on the 38th floor of the U.N. Secretariat waited for a telex message from Tehran that would confirm what they felt certain had been Banisadr's verbal agreement. The message finally arrived late in the day. As Waldheim read it, according to a U.N. aide who was present, he swallowed hard, suppressed an instinct to curse and "looked like a man who had been kicked in the pants." The cable mentioned nothing about the hostages and referred to the commission as though Banisadr was expecting it to hold a trial. Said the Iranian...
...company which writes the six-part SAT composed of verbal and math sections and a test of standard written English, holds a predominant position in the testing market. ETS controls well over half the entire testing market, which includes such tests as the Law School Aptitude Test (LSAT), the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), and various professional tests such as bar examinations. Because of its leading role in the testing industry, ETS, which takes in nearly $90 million a year, has been the center of much of the controversy and criticism associated with testing...
...instance, Donaldson is so busy tracking down news of a possible hostage settlement with Iran that he does not finish taping his stand-up report from the White House lawn until two minutes before air time. Still, Donaldson has discussed his reports and has gone through a kind of verbal editing earlier...
...Kennedy wants Carter onstage. We always seem to come back to show business. He wants to bait Carter to see whether he cannot get the President to impale himself fatally on some verbal shaft. Remember Richard Nixon and John Kennedy. Nixon had sweat on his upper lip, and people did not like his looks. Nixon may have lost the 1960 election in a few dismal seconds on the tube. There are a lot of people still around who wonder if that was any way to choose...